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Today, the European Parliament voted on the regulation commonly known as “chat control”, laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse material. Earlier drafts of this bill had posed a severe threat to encryption and privacy, but recent

On October 26, the UK Parliament passed the Online Safety Act, giving Ofcom, the UK’s telecoms regulator, broad powers to search for, find, and suppress harmful media and speech by scanning the internet and, despite widespread condemnation from the t

Dropbox is one of the biggest names in cloud storage, which is why you might be surprised to learn it doesn’t use the most secure encryption algorithms and doesn’t protect your privacy. While Dropbox is secure from outside attack, it has suffered da

Each year since 2018, the Proton community has raised funds to support nonprofits that align with our mission through our Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser. With your support, we’ve donated around $2 million to organizations working to build a bett

Passwords are sensitive information and sharing them isn’t usually recommended. But sometimes there are good reasons you might want to give other people access to your logins: * Sharing your streaming account with your friends * Giving your partne

You might have heard about quantum computers, a futuristic kind of computer that can perform certain operations far faster than today’s machines. You might have also heard that quantum computers will soon break encryption and expose everyone’s data.

On October 26, the UK Parliament passed the Online Safety Act, giving Ofcom, the UK’s telecoms regulator, broad powers to search for, find, and suppress harmful media and speech by scanning the internet and, despite widespread condemnation from the t

On Thursday October 26th, MEPs in the European Parliament held press conferences outlining the compromises reached within the EU Parliament negotiators on the controversial Chat Control proposal. The original legal draft, published by the European Co

As we feared, the UK Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill without making the necessary changes to safeguard privacy.  The Online Safety Act, as it’s now called, includes a clause that gives the British government the power to access, collect

Dropbox is one of the biggest names in cloud storage, which is why you might be surprised to learn it doesn’t use the most secure encryption algorithms and doesn’t protect your privacy. While Dropbox is secure from outside attack, it has suffered da

Like most browsers, Microsoft Edge has a built-in password manager. Can you trust it, though? Is Microsoft Edge password manager safe? Overall, while Microsoft Edge password manager seems safe at first, there are some issues with the way it handles

Chances are you’ve deleted a file you shouldn’t have at some point. Getting it back isn’t always impossible, though, and with some foresight and smart use of software you might be able to recover it.  Let’s go over the best ways to recover accidenta

If a web browser tells you you’re “incognito” and can “browse privately”, you might assume your online activities are private and no one is collecting your data. But you’d be wrong. It’s precisely this ambiguity that has landed Google in the crossha

In the public eye, Google presents itself as a champion of privacy. “Privacy is at the heart of everything we do,” its CEO said. But behind closed doors, Google is telling a different story to policymakers and actively fighting against privacy laws

Google has already taken privacy washing to the extreme by trying to brand itself as “privacy focused”, even though its business model is based on surveillance.  Lately, the company’s marketing strategy has turned toward outright Orwellian doublespe